NYT Praises Obama's Speech: 'The Man America Elected President Has Re

The New York Times was very excited about President Obama's deficit reduction speech. The Gray Lady's editorial Thursday began, "The man America elected president has re-emerged":
Noel Sheppard
April 14th, 2011 11:18 AM

Time's Klein Hails Obama As 'Mr. Prudent' on Federal Budget, Blasts R

President Obama is "Mr. Prudent," a grown-up heralding "deficit sanity" in a Washington gone mad with "delusional" Republican plans for draconian budget cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy. That's the predictable leftist talking point-laden take that Time magazine's Joe Klein had after listening to President Obama's hectoring lecture yesterday at George Washington University (emphasis mine):
Ken Shepherd
April 14th, 2011 10:42 AM

Berkeley Scientist: Marijuana Causes Global Warming

Nobel Laureate Al Gore's favorite money making myth suddenly has some competition for the wackiest reason the planet has warmed in recent years. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Marlo Lewis reported Tuesday, a University of California, Berkeley, scientist believes that the indoor growing of marijuana is responsible - at least partially, of course:
Noel Sheppard
April 14th, 2011 9:36 AM

Open Thread: Budget Deal to Reduce Deficit by Paltry $352 Million This

The House is slated to vote today on the budget deal struck by the president, Rep. John Boehner, and Sen. Harry Reid, but the Associated Press released an analysys Wednesday that shows that the nearly $8 billion in budget cuts the deal brokered will be almost entirely offset by increases in defense spending. The Congressional Budget Office estimate shows that compared with current spending…
NB Staff
April 14th, 2011 9:09 AM

'Pansexual' High School Student Stars in California History Fight

Sixteen-year-old Irene Rojas-Carroll, an activist who calls herself a "pansexual," is the star of a San Francisco Chronicle story on a controversial California bill to mandate that schools pay tribute to homosexual pioneers in their history lessons. Jill Tucker reported: A controversial bill moving through the state Legislature would change that, requiring social science instructional…
Tim Graham
April 14th, 2011 8:50 AM

Halperin: MSM Would Savage GOP President Calling Opponents' Budget Un

Mark Halperin . . . on a roll! Yesterday, we noted that the MSNBC analyst was surprisingly respectful to Donald Trump.  Today, Halperin offered more refreshingly objective analysis.  Commenting on President Obama's budget speech of yesterday, Halperin observed that if a Republican had called a Dem budget un-American, in the same way that PBO pummeled Republican proposals, the MSM "would be…
Mark Finkelstein
April 14th, 2011 8:30 AM

Lawrence O'Donnell: Americans Aren't Rugged Individualists - They're S

Last November, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell proudly declared himself a socialist on national television. On Wednesday, "The Last Word" host took this a huge step further saying the whole idea that Americans are rugged individualists is an illusion because they're all really socialists (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 14th, 2011 12:05 AM

Soros-Funded NPR Going After 'Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire' Again

The $1.8 million grant George Soros gave to NPR was for local reporters in every state capital. But that doesn't mean NPR isn't also beginning to look like a Soros-pleaser on the national scene. Once again on Monday, NPR media reporter David Folkenflik went after Rupert Murdoch, and a voice-mail-hacking scandal at his U.K. tabloid News of the World. In England, the socialist newspaper The…
Tim Graham
April 13th, 2011 10:48 PM

NBC’s Engel ‘Worried’ About ‘Ferociously Anti-Israel’ Arab S

 On Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel informed viewers that he is "worried" that a major war between some of the Arab countries and Israel could be in the not too distant future because of the "ferociously anti-Israel" sentiment of the "Arab street" that is likely to gain power in countries like Egypt. He ended up concluding: "But I think, over time, this…
Brad Wilmouth
April 13th, 2011 10:15 PM

Krauthammer: Obama's Speech 'Was a Disgrace', 'Shallow' and 'Deeply Di

Charles Krauthammer was less than pleased with Barack Obama's speech Wednesday concerning his plan to bring down the nation's staggering budget deficit. As the panel segment of Fox's "Special Report" began, Krauthammer said, "I thought it was a disgrace. I thought I’ve rarely heard a speech by a president so shallow, so hyper-partisan, and so intellectually dishonest, outside the last couple…
Noel Sheppard
April 13th, 2011 9:54 PM

Chris Matthews Asks Conservative Guest 'What Do You Think, I'm On The

MSNBC's Chris Matthews has on numerous occasions said he's a liberal while also having gotten a thrill up his leg on national televisionwhen presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke back in 2008. Despite this, on Wednesday's "Hardball," he asked the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore, "What do you think, I'm on the far left?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
April 13th, 2011 8:15 PM

SF Chronicle Hails 'Obama's Centrist Approach' to Budget

"Obama aims for the middle on taxes and spending." That's the headline the San Francisco Chronicle gave Washington bureau staffer Carolyn Lochhead's write-up this afternoon following President Obama's "belated embrace of his commission's recommendation to cut $4 trillion in deficits over the next 12 years." "Even as he reached back to his 2008 campaign lodestar with a reference to Abraham…
Ken Shepherd
April 13th, 2011 5:53 PM

Anderson Cooper Fact-Checks Abortion Foes – But Not Planned Parentho

On last Friday and on this past Tuesday night, CNN's Anderson Cooper ran fact-checks against the claims of two anti-abortion members of Congress against Planned Parenthood – but did not bother to conduct similar fact checks on the claims of Planned Parenthood and its Democratic supporters. During his Tuesday segment of "Keeping Them Honest," Cooper countered the claims of conservative Rep.…
Matt Hadro
April 13th, 2011 5:48 PM

Movement to Move 'Red Eye' to Earlier Time Slot Picks Up Steam

While we always worry when we find ourselves in agreement with Mediaite, we are happy to see the idea we promoted last week picking up some steam.
John Nolte
April 13th, 2011 5:19 PM